Find out what real cowardice is

Published: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 4:30 a.m.

Last Modified: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 12:00 a.m.

To The Editor: In opposition to the putrid raving of our local ex-jarhead in last Saturday's Times-News garbage column, please go to www.lewrockwell. com/bonner/bonner44.html and read the rest of Bill Bonner's article, titled "Undaunted Cowardice."

There, you will find intelligent, gifted writers, capable of discerning the difference between what Americans were intended to be and what they have become.

There, you will learn that the real terrorists are you, and the warmongers you elected to ruin this country via socialism and economic collapse.

Sometimes it takes courage to go to war. Sometimes it takes courage not to.

But it takes a lot of thinking to figure out the difference. Dying is easier than thinking for most people. And for most people, probably preferable.

But a real coward doesn't bother to think, and lets someone else die.

As near as we can tell, almost no one in either party has had a single serious thought about the war.

And none has had the courage to ask: What's the war really about? Why is it worth dying for? What do we hope to gain from it?

<p>To The Editor: In opposition to the putrid raving of our local ex-jarhead in last Saturday's Times-News garbage column, please go to www.lewrockwell. com/bonner/bonner44.html and read the rest of Bill Bonner's article, titled "Undaunted Cowardice."</p><!-- Nothing to do. The paragraph has already been output --><p>There, you will find intelligent, gifted writers, capable of discerning the difference between what Americans were intended to be and what they have become.</p><p>There, you will learn that the real terrorists are you, and the warmongers you elected to ruin this country via socialism and economic collapse.</p><p>Sometimes it takes courage to go to war. Sometimes it takes courage not to.</p><p>But it takes a lot of thinking to figure out the difference. Dying is easier than thinking for most people. And for most people, probably preferable.</p><p>But a real coward doesn't bother to think, and lets someone else die.</p><p>As near as we can tell, almost no one in either party has had a single serious thought about the war.</p><p>And none has had the courage to ask: What's the war really about? Why is it worth dying for? What do we hope to gain from it?</p><p>When will it be over? At what cost? Who will pay for it? How?</p><p>James P. Harvey</p><p>Hendersonville</p>